Around ten years ago but it has only been these last few years that i can consider myself doing something that i really like. Step by step and very slowly but I was not aware of it. I don't even really think that I have a signature style because to me it always evolves but within certain constrains. I think it all comes down to assimilate influences and making them mine somehow. Thus said, I am always fond of counterbalancing a distressed style with these high fashion images like bubbles of beauty in a sea of urban decay. I guess it has to do with the creative principles of life. Although I don't think men has not is place in my works. I am also very lazy to be honest. It also reflects a personal taste when it comes to art. Collage is an art form that is created from a variety of materials, colors, textures, etc. It became a thing in modern art when Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque coined the term collage itself in the early 20th century. Over the years, collage has taken up different forms which include photomontage, digital collage, wood collage, mosaic, and eCollage.

After a while I just did pure handmade collages, I needed to build confidence in my own abilities. The process of cutting things up, using my hands was something that I missed without knowing it. Raphaël Vicenzi, also known as Mydeadpony, is a Belgian illustrator. He creates layered mix media artwork that combine influences from art, fashion, graffiti and graphic design.When you began your journey as a designer you probably had a few role models, would you name two of your favorite artists? x8.3″; acid-free paper, images cut from magazines, Posca markers; 2023 YOU GET VOLCANOES I GET EMPTY PARKING LOTS I don’t think you’d see my works as provocative at first but it’s there. Although in a poetic way sometimes.

Sometimes I just want it to look organic in aesthetic terms. Other times I become totally obsessed with an idea and I struggle to transmit it in visual form. In my opinion, even if you try to avoid any meaning in your works, it always show somehow – even a stroke is representative of your state of mind or who you are at that moment in time. I would be lying if I said I was in total control of what I create.” I scan a lot of watercolours, doodles, textures and then I work the whole in PS, with very few effects, PS brushes, masks, layer modes and that's nearly it. I found that by limiting myself in this way I could work better and just try to get to the core of an idea. I admire people who possess great painting techniques though.x8.3″; acid-free paper, images cut from magazines, Posca markers; 2023 I WANT TO FEEL LIKE TUNGUSKA AGAIN TWS –The human body, specially the female body, is a central element in your work. Can you tell us about this feature of your work and how do you approach the genre of portrait in your work? All of them, they're all little pieces of me at certain point in time. My latest works are closer to what I think nowadays. It’s not something I can intellectualise too much but there is always a tension between happy accidents, randomness, composition and intentional creation. In the context of illustration, collage is popularly used as a technique in children’s picture books, magazines, and other print and digital media.

Raphael says his art is mainly inspired by ‘ life, art, fashion, collage, street art, graphic design, loud music… ‘ I don’t know, I hope I’ll still be able to create in four years from now and that people will see how I progressed and changed.I am all for personal interpretations because it is more enriching for the person who's looking at my works. In a way, I don't even know myself or what kind of meaning I really want to express until I realise that I was communicating something true without even knowing about it at first,” he said. Our readers would definitely love to know what hardware and software you use when you create your designs?

I have chosen to look at this work because the artist really relates to my work and is very inspirational. TWS –Also there’s a visible connection with punk aesthetic? How does popular culture informs you and your art? Work a lot, get inspired by your own personal life, be curious of everything, don’t listen to peer pressure, trust your vision but learn to be able to change your mind about what you think is right because sometimes you won’t be. Always hoping to find unseen connections between elements, teetering on total randomness and controlled impulses, rewriting possibilities through happy accidents and instinctual markings. A lot, I'll name a few, Tom Bagshaw, Banksy, Daniel Egneus, Stina Persson, David Foldvari, Muscha and on and on...

Born in the small industrial town of Charleroi in 1972, he moved to Brussels when he was in my twenties. Entirely self taught, his style is derived from an amalgamation of interest. Becoming more refined over time, his newer work is more thought out, and far more unique. Everything is being written in real time and in the end, no one knows where it will lead but let’s enjoy the ride together. We asked Vicenzi about this evolution and how his assemblage method invites open-ended interpretation instead of narrating meaning. Does this kind of restraint add or detract from the final result? I don’t have strict guidelines but more of a loose set of rules so I don’t have to really think on how to set everything up, I can just start working.